Azure SDK for .NET is a repository containing the actively developed C# libraries that applications use to work with Azure services. It is for .NET developers building software that connects to Azure storage, management, and other cloud services.
Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx agentmods add instructions/azure/azure-sdk-for-net/copilot-instructionsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-netWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/azure/azure-sdk-for-net/copilot-instructions)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/azure/azure-sdk-for-net/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/azure/azure-sdk-for-net/copilot-instructions.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00738 | $0.00738 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00369 | $0.00369 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00148 | $0.00148 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00074 | $0.00074 |
Grade A, and why
azure-sdk-for-net copilot-instructions.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 50 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Project Overview
Note: For general AI agent guidelines and repository overview, see AGENTS.md at the repository root.
This repo contains Azure SDKs for various Azure services and tools that generate them.
Prerequisites
- To use MCP tool calls, PowerShell must be installed. Provide PowerShell installation instructions if not installed, and recommend restarting the IDE to use the MCP server.
- When using Copilot from Visual Studio or VS Code (not applicable when using Coding Agent on Github.com):
- Always run the
azsdk_verify_setuptool first to validate the user's development environment for SDK MCP tools. - Do not proceed with any other tool execution until this step is complete.
- Skip this check only for queries that do not require tool execution.
- Always run the
Folder Structure
/eng/packages/http-client-csharp: Contains the source code of the generator for Azure Data Plane SDKs (aka Azure Generator)./eng/packages/http-client-csharp-mgmt: Contains the source code of the generator for Azure Management Plane SDKs (aka Azure Management Generator)./sdk: Contains the individual SDKs for Azure services.
Azure Generator
- Always run
npm installin the/eng/packages/http-client-csharpdirectory before running the generator. - Always run
/eng/packages/http-client-csharp/eng/scripts/Generate.ps1to regenerate the test projects to validate the result of generator code changes. - For emitter changes, always run
npm run lintandnpm run prettierin the/eng/packages/http-client-csharpdirectory to ensure the changes won't break CI.
Azure Management Generator
- Always run
npm installin the/eng/packages/http-client-csharp-mgmtdirectory before running the generator. - Always run
/eng/packages/http-client-csharp-mgmt/eng/scripts/Generate.ps1to regenerate the test projects to validate the result of generator code changes. - For emitter changes, always run
npm run lintandnpm run prettierin the/eng/packages/http-client-csharp-mgmtdirectory to ensure the changes won't break CI.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 6d ago First seen · 50 lines · 738 tokens per session scan A 639d19a4ad11
azure-sdk-for-net copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Azure/azure-sdk-for-net (6,049 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 738 tokens to every session, about $0.0037 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
Other instructions, from other repositories
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maui copilot-instructions.md
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maui integration-tests.instructions.md
Guidance for GitHub Copilot when working with .NET MAUI integration tests.
maui ci-copilot-pipeline-security.instructions.md
Security rules for the Copilot PR-review pipeline. Read before editing.
maui android.instructions.md
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maui xaml-unittests.instructions.md
Guidelines for writing XAML unit tests in the Controls.Xaml.UnitTests project.